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On May 2, 1519, Leonardo da Vinci, the Florentine painter...

In 1670 the Hudson's Bay Co. was chartered by England's King Charles II.

In 1837 Democrat William B. Ogden was elected the first mayor of Chicago, defeating Whig John H. Kinzie by a vote of 489-217.

In 1865 the body of President Abraham Lincoln arrived in Chicago to lie in state in a courthouse. (About 125,000 people would view the coffin.)

In 1885 Good Housekeeping magazine was first published by Clark W. Bryan in Holyoke, Mass.

In 1890 the Oklahoma Territory was organized.

In 1904 singer Bing Crosby was born in Tacoma, Wash. (He died in 1977.)

In 1917 pitchers Jim "Hippo" Vaughn of the Cubs and Fred Toney of the Cincinnati Reds each hurled nine no-hit innings in Chicago. (Vaughn gave up two hits and a run in the 10th; Toney no-hit the Cubs in the bottom half and the Reds won 1-0.)

In 1944 synthetic quinine was produced at a Harvard University laboratory.

In 1945 the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies reported the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.

In 1957 Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin, died in Bethesda Naval Hospital.

In 1972 a mine fire in Kellogg, Idaho, killed 91 people. Also in 1972 J. Edgar Hoover, who served 48 years as head of the FBI, died in Washington at age 77.

In 1983 an earthquake registering between 6.1 and 6.5 on the Richter scale struck near Coalinga, Calif., injuring nearly 50 people and causing an estimated $31 million in damage.

In 1984, while returning from China, President Ronald Reagan stopped in Fairbanks, Alaska, and met briefly with Pope John Paul II, who was on his way to South Korea.

In 1993 Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic approved a plan to end the Bosnian war. (The Bosnian Serb assembly rejected it four days later.) Also in 1993 authorities said they had recovered the remains of David Koresh from the burned-out Branch Davidian compound in Texas.